France

Ah! La Belle Paris...NOT!
Yet another day of protests and riots by the French...mainly students apparently...I was watching CNN earlier when the French police had moved in with the water cannon.
They were spraying a group of students who held fast. Then I realized the two important things about the scene I was witnessing:
1. The police didn't have the two cannon's on high...so the water was just washing over the group of about twenty protestors...not knocking them on their asses like it was capable of doing.
2. They weren't moving away from the cannon or it's spray...in fact, one individual was dancing around trying to remain with the beaten zone of the water spray...I found this all to be odd until I realized what was really going on...

THEIR ANNUAL BATH!!!

Thankfully they all remained attired during this exercise...after a few minutes they moved off and another group showed up for the treatment...
This all called to mind my student days in Paris...the France of DeGaulle, where I was first introduced to the country that (as I recall) invented cologne for the purpose of covering up the stench...the city(country) of hairy pits and hairier legs, on women...so it made sense...begin a protest, throw a few rocks, and get a bath, not to mention your clothes washed!...